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Governments outlawing of numbers has been going on for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
by em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
Governments outlawing of numbers has been going on for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- oreo81 9y agoAll those of those are examples of numbers that have already been discovered, not preemptively banning numbers yet to be found.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoThey still pre-emptively ban numbers, for instance if they represent something illegal: "Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to possess, due to obscenity or secrecy/classified status, so the corresponding numbers could be illegal." Also, the concept of "numbers yet to be found" is philosophically questionable.